| Roche, Shire court fight underscores high stakes in hemophilia | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche's bid to muscle in on Shire's share of the $11 billion hemophilia drug market took a new, contentious turn this weekend when the British drugmaker won a court injunction against how the Swiss drugmaker talks about its new medicine. |
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| Outbreak of hantavirus infections kills three in Washington state | | | (Reuters) - Five people have been stricken with the rare, rodent-borne hantavirus illness in Washington state since February, three of whom have died, in the state's worst outbreak of the disease in at least 18 years, public health officials reported on Thursday. |
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| UK Supreme Court rules in favor of Lilly's Alimta patents | | | (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co won a years-long patent dispute with Actavis on Friday after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the generic drugmaker's versions of Lilly's top-selling cancer drug Alimta directly infringe on certain Lilly patents in Britain, France, Italy and Spain. |
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| Brazil seeks meeting with USDA chief to discuss beef ban | | | SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government has requested a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to discuss a ban imposed on the country's fresh beef, Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said on Friday. |
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| Kidney transplant rules may curb disparities | | | (Reuters Health) - A shift in how donor kidneys are allocated in the U.S. has been linked with higher transplant rates for black and Hispanic patients, a recent study suggests. |
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| Surgeon moms face special challenges | | | (Reuters Health) - Dr. Jennifer Davids went straight from high school to college to medical school and into training to become a colorectal surgeon. Even without a break, she wasn’t finished with her studies until she was 34 years old – at the beginning of the end of most women’s reproductive years. |
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